Sophomore Fillies Debut at Arapahoe

Futurity winners return for the Arapahoe season.

Press ReleaseMay 30, 2014

Two of the top Quarter Horse 2-year-old fillies at Arapahoe Park last year will make their 3-year-old debuts at the Aurora, Colorado racecourse this weekend. Midori N Smoke and Lil Ms Money Bags are entered in the same trial for the 350-yard Lucille Rowe Derby for Colorado-bred 3-year-olds on Friday.

Margo Schares’ Midori N Smoke (Special Leader-Smokin Cartel by Corona Cartel) and Beauprez/Bradbury/Bradbury’s Lil Ms Money Bags (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Bits Of Bliss by Streakin La Jolla), both trained by John Hammes, won two of the three Arapahoe Park futurities in 2013. Midori N Smoke captured the $86,000 Cherry Creek Futurity (RG3) for Colorado-breds and has been away from the races since being scratched out of the $109,000 Mile High Futurity (G3).

“We thought she might have had a little bit of a tear in her suspensory, but we kept taking ultrasounds and never could find it,” Hammes said. “Rather than take a chance, we shut her down for the year.”